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Democratic attacks on the Contract might have worked even better without the damaging memo by Clinton Budget Director Alice Rivlin that was leaked to the press last week. In summarizing options for reducing the deficit, the memo listed many of the same measures, like trimming Social Security benefits, that the Democrats had tried to pin on the Republicans. Though the White House rushed to deny that it would consider Rivlin's more controversial choices, Gingrich saw his opening. "We printed our word so every American could see it," he says. "The Clinton Administration kept their word secret until...
Poor Alice Rivlin. She told the truth and is getting burned for it. Democrats, including Bill Clinton, whom she serves as budget director, have disavowed her list of "illustrative options" designed to boost the nation's wobbly economy. Republicans, distorting her discussion of possible tax increases and entitlement cuts, are running television spots attacking...
...Rivlin is simply doing her job. In urging alternatives for a mid-course correction, she aims to keep Clinton in the White House for a second term...
...White House found itself in a familiar place today: on the defensive, denying that Clinton intends to support tax hikes or cuts in entitlement benefits -- as Republicans interpreted an Administration memo leaked Sunday to the Washington Post. The memo, prepared by OMB Director Alice Rivlin, listed revenue-raising options available to help Clinton raise money for deficit cutting and provide universal health care. But the G.O.P. quickly zeroed in on mentions of Social Security COLA adjustments, benefit reductions and payroll deduction hikes. Representative Newt Gingrich (Rep., Georgia) attacked, saying the memo reinforces the feelings of the American people that...
...price of the finished goods -- a de facto sales tax. Bill Clinton, shying away, dubbed them a "radical" revenue-raising method in February. But faced with the expected multibillion-dollar annual cost of extending medical coverage to all Americans, Health Secretary Donna Shalala and budget guru Alice Rivlin both seemed intrigued by a VAT -- apparently in addition to health care-dedicated revenues to be derived from higher taxes on alcohol and tobacco...